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Chapter 147 Passing and Cutting Tactics
Pass-and-cut tactics are a widely used offensive technique in the NBA. The general requirements are: actively create offensive opportunities, and two or three players use passing, cutting and other techniques to carry out simple but changeable combinations and cooperation, so as to achieve effective Organizational cooperation.

The pass-and-cut tactic is characterized by a small number of participants, can be completed in a short period of time in a local area, and has greater flexibility and randomness. The current pass-and-cut tactic is undoubtedly the best used by the Jazz in the league.

"After the game starts, you two, Blair and Diaw, go to pull out the opposing inside line, and stand on both sides. Yang, as long as you don't find any obvious flaws, then you can pass the ball to Diao."

Standing in the encirclement of the players, Popovich quickly wrote and drew on the tactical board, while talking, he looked up from time to time to see the reactions of the players, "Then you will make a vertical cut with Ginobili. Cooperate, tear apart the opponent's defensive space, and look for favorable opportunities!"

The vertical cutting cooperation between the point guard and the shooting guard is one of the basic coordination methods in passing and cutting. Through foot movement, oblique penetration, vertical penetration and cross-screening, etc., to surpass the opponent's defense, seize a favorable position, and find the way to cut into the corner. opportunity.

"The second attack idea, after Young passes the ball to Diaw, Ginobili quickly cuts to the basket, and Jefferson goes to make a counter-cut for Young. After the cooperation, Young can follow the three-point line Run back, and Jefferson, you take the opportunity to cut to the basket, and whoever has the opportunity shoots!"

Since this set of tactics was just a temporary idea, Popovich clearly assigned the tasks and details to the people, which made this set of tactics a bit rigid.

Coupled with the successful use of uploading and cutting tactics, in addition to the personal ability and awareness of the players, the tacit cooperation between the players is also very important.

Therefore, Popovich doesn't expect the players to play perfectly as soon as they go up. He just wants to see Dior's strength and adaptability, and casually investigate the possibility of implementing new tactics.

After leading the players to do a whole set of warm-up exercises, Popovich also immediately announced the start of the training match. Since the main purpose of this training match was to examine the side where Dior was, he directly handed the ball to Young Ke.

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After Yang Ke took the ball across the half court, he first looked at Leonard who was defending him, and then followed Popovich's instructions and transferred the ball to Diaw, who was one step inside the three-point line.

On the sidelines, Popovich and Borrego stood shoulder to shoulder. When he saw Leonard guarding Yang Ke, he smiled and asked, "You asked Leonard to guard Yang?"

"Of course, Leonard is not only the most familiar with Yang, but compared to Parker, his reaction, speed, defense and other aspects can better keep up with Yang!"

Borrego nodded with a smile. Leonard's defense is much better than Parker's. In addition, it was an unimportant training game, so Parker, who had an old leg injury, was transferred to defend Jefferson. .

Seeing that Yang Ke and Ginobili began to make vertical cuts, Borrego was stunned immediately. Because of Ginobili's existence, the Spurs' bench lineup has been mainly based on offensive tactics based on sudden points.

Unexpectedly!

Today, he actually switched to pass-and-cut tactics. His eyes were slightly bright, and he looked at Diaw who was holding the ball in front of Duncan. Borrego asked, "You let Diao serve as a turning point in the offense, can he do it?"

"Just look at it and you'll find out."

Popovich replied with a calm face. Given that Diaw has a strong body, his skills are also very delicate, and he has a high ball quotient, he intends to make Diaw a ball-handling and organizational player.

Just when Popovich finished his sentence, the situation on the field had changed significantly. Through the vertical cut cooperation with Yang Ke, Ginobili seized the fleeting opportunity and quickly moved to The inside cuts in, and it's time to test Dior.

In fact, in pass-and-cut tactics, the player who passes the ball is more important than the player who cuts.He needs to pass the ball accurately into the hands of his teammates or the route to be reached when the players are in the best attacking position.This requires excellent observation and judgment skills, and at least good passing skills.

Time to act!

Seeing that Ginobili had already started to cut in, Diaw knew that he couldn't wait any longer. He immediately turned around, faced Duncan head-on, covered the ball with both hands, shook his shoulders, and pretended to single-handedly hit Duncan.

After successfully attracting Duncan's defensive attention, Diaw sent the basketball out of Duncan's arm with a technical action of a false throw and a real pass, and shouted: "Manu, the ball!"

Hearing the unfamiliar shout, Ginobili realized that it was Dio's voice, and turned his head slightly, when he saw the path of the basketball flying.

With joy in his heart, the frequency and speed of his feet increased, and Ginobili caught the basketball easily in a second. Facing the empty basket, he succeeded in a standard three-step layup.

"Nice pass!"

Clapping his palms, Borrego applauded the substitute team's attack without hesitation, especially for Dior, who did not expect his passing level to be so good.

In the game, for passing the ball, the passing position is always much better than the passing person, because if you pass the ball in the correct position, then the player receiving the ball can get the ball comfortably without any adjustments at all, and can directly Homeopathic attack.

But in this attack, Dior passed the ball very well and found the position very accurately. He was even afraid of making mistakes due to lack of tacit understanding, and deliberately reminded Ginobili loudly to ensure the accuracy of the attack!

In the next training game, as the game continued, the understanding and application of the pass and cut tactics by the substitute side gradually deepened, so the game became smoother and smoother.

As the tactical core of the substitute side, Dior has lived up to expectations and fully demonstrated his advantages, excellent overall view, good low-post singles ability, and long-range shooting that can pull down beyond the three-point line.

But again, in the matchup with Duncan, Dior's disadvantages were exposed without any surprise. His average rebounding ability could not prevent players who were higher than him, and because of the heavy tonnage, Dior's physical fitness was a big problem. , A game can only be played for more than 20 minutes at most.

But for this result, Popovich is already very satisfied, Dior is very cheap, and as long as he loses weight, those disadvantages will no longer exist.In addition, Diaw's style of play is very suitable for the Spurs, and the team is currently in need of a ball-handling No. [-] or [-] to enrich the offensive and defensive tactical arrangements of the substitute lineup.

A few 10 minutes later, seeing that Dior's physical energy was exhausted, Popovich called a stop to training. Satisfied with the results of this training match, he waved his hand to announce the end of this morning's training.

(End of this chapter)